About the Use of Larnakes and Coffins in Mycenean Greece
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2005.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : About the use of larnakes and coffins in Mycenean Greece. In the Late Bronze Age different types of burials could be practised in the same cemetery. This article considers eleven cemeteries in continental Greece which contain inhumations in larnakes or coffins. The Tanagra cemeteries yielded most clay larnakes, dating to LH III (1400 BC). Wooden coffins can be deduced for cemeteries at Eleusis and Perati from the position of the skeletons. The offerings in Mycenaean burials are the same whether there are coffins or not. All contain fragments of drinking cups, sometimes also bones of goats. Funeral rites involving feasts and drinking must have been common and did not depend on the type of burial.
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About the use of larnakes and coffins in Mycenean Greece. In the Late Bronze Age different types of burials could be practised in the same cemetery. This article considers eleven cemeteries in continental Greece which contain inhumations in larnakes or coffins. The Tanagra cemeteries yielded most clay larnakes, dating to LH III (1400 BC). Wooden coffins can be deduced for cemeteries at Eleusis and Perati from the position of the skeletons. The offerings in Mycenaean burials are the same whether there are coffins or not. All contain fragments of drinking cups, sometimes also bones of goats. Funeral rites involving feasts and drinking must have been common and did not depend on the type of burial.
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